I installed a Bigsby model B-5 with the VibraMate system, which requires no additional holes to be drilled in the body.

Otto & The Ottomans
Kennedy Custom Guitars

soon out the bench
christmas gift for my father

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Tanks Bjorn
And your sgv ?
Need paint only now?
This black jazzy seems really cool ,light ,don t have a scale but more lighter than the 2 others ,the av 65 pups sound real Good ,not as m'y pickup wizard but really better than the av62
Need to finish the set up again ,not enough time to do all, more over i need to speed for finishing the Bass rest only few week end before Christmas

ludobag wrote:

Tanks Bjorn
And your sgv ?
Need paint only now?

My SGV build is slow

I have had too much work with reverb builds and tremolo circuits.
But I have experimented with a dummy coil for my special mini-jazzmaster pickups:

It seems to work great to lower the hum.
For these pickups I needed a dummy coil:
900 turns of 0.15mm diameter wire => 340ohms
That serial impedance will probably not effect the sound at all.

You should try this with your next build, Ludo!

CrazyAces wrote:

Bjorn,
Will your coil go directly under the pickups or mounted in the back of the guitar?

Cheers,
Jeff

First I planned to have it on the back side, like the Suhr product. But i found it easier to have it under the pickups.

I think more guitar builders should try this. Its much easier to wind than a pickup. Less turns and thicker wire.

There is a patent, but for your own use, its no problem. This is from the Illich patent:

1962 Bandmater head #1. Heat had apparently taken it's toll on one of the 470 ohm resistors on one of the 6L6 sockets. Currently waiting to get parts. I plan to mod the bias supply, updating it to a variable supply like the blackface amps.

ed

Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?

CrazyAces wrote:

The strat backplate really doesn't affect the sound at all and they are really popular with the session players here in Nashville.

Jeff, are you talking about the plate underneath the pickup, as when some attach those under a Strat bridge pup to fatten it a bit?

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

CrazyAces wrote:

Bjorn,
Very cool.
I have experience with the Illich products, as distributed by Suhr and Fralin and they work well, most of them.
The strat backplate really doesn't affect the sound at all and they are really popular with the session players here in Nashville.

Jeff, so you mounted these backplates on strats!
What is the procedure for trimming the coil to cancel out the hum?
Do you get the same hum reduction on all three pickups?

/Björn

Thanks a lot, Jeff!!!
So far I have only experimented with my coil, but it seems promising!
/Björn

(maybe this'll help someone in advance)

With the crab salad done up, the Triscuits & Ritz laid out on the side
And the BBQ smokies in their crock-pot nearby
With the cheese cut up (5 kinds) with summer sausage & venison too
And Martin's CD looping in the player filling the room...

It was time to check the bias on the amp; and get the traitorous chassis strap screw out which had apparently been driven in at initial assembly and, probably with too much torque, cross-threaded into the (not really a) nut that was melded with the chassis bottom. An example of what used to be and what is now. (It's tradition; even Mr. Fender would've saved a few pennies on a bolt or nut sometimes if it still served the initial purpose.)

At top, here's what happens when trying to back it out by hand - fortunately the screw didn't twist itself into oblivion until almost out, so the tray could come out.

At bottom, here is what should've gone in; simple to take in & take out. For those who are in & out of their modern reissue amp you may want to consider tapping those budget things off after the screws are out & replacing them with what's on the bottom. In your hardware store it's an 8-32 Kep nut, the one with the little star washer integral to the nut. Screws right onto the chassis strap screw. Here they're 23 cents each, YMMV. Buy 4.

Happy trails & Merry Christmas. HoHoHo.

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.